OUR MISSION
Dear Brothers and Sisters: We are a small group of Christians having a heavy burden for those “beaten to half dead” in mainland China, and willing to carry our own cross to follow our Lord. The new command Jesus gave us - “Love one another” (John 13:34) is our mission to love especially those brothers and sisters being brutally persecuted because of the name of our Lord.
Although the devil has huge power even in the United States, “My shield is God Most High” (Psalm 7;10). With the faith from our Lord, we have been persisting in doing our daily work for this ministry: to voice for those persecuted, to translate Jesus’ love into action to help those loving the Lord with soul and truth and struggling for survive under the terrorism regime, to live for the gospel to be preached legally, openly and freely in China, to fight a good fight for our Lord, and to glorify the cross with our lives.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: These Chinese brothers and sisters left their names, photos and addresses with their testimonies while being harshly persecuted, not in order to be put in the police name list, but to let the deceived oversea Christians know the facts, and to testify their love for Lord overcomes everything on the earth even life!
The Three-self churches (the official churches) are the deceiving veil of the Communist Party. Their limited “freedom” can not prove true religion freedom, nor can it cover the long-term persecution facts of the house churches that outnumber the three-self churches.
A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers … leaving him half dead … A priest … So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him…Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.” (Luke 10:30-37) Did we, the free Christians, go and do likewise?
TESTIMONY OF BLOOD AND TEARS
Brother Yanbin Zhang, 43-year old, used to live in Zhaozhuang City, Shandong Province. He has been arrested, tortured, and jailed many times because of preaching the gospel. During a brutal torture in 1998, he was beaten almost to death with some major organs severely injured. Although he was brought back to life but he lost his spleen and part of his stomach. His poor wife fell sick in deep depression due to the persecution and passed away at her middle age. Their three young kids helped the dad to bury the mom in a tomb which epitaph only says “WAITING FOR LORD COMING AGAIN”. Due to the continuous persecution, they had to abandon their home and live a fugitive life. They still bring the gospel to wherever they can go although they are always in great need of food and clothing, not even to say housing or schooling for the kids …
This is just one example of the hundreds of thousands of house church Christians who have been silently enduring severe persecutions just because of their pure Christian faith. According to the results of our investigation in the past several years based on a sample size of 560,000 house church members, it is estimated that among over 60 million house church members there were 2,700,000 detained or arrested, 440,000 jailed, 10,000 tortured to death, 20,000 crippled by torture, 200,000 on running or missing, 750 officially wanted, and 1,130,000 heavily fined since China adopted open and reformation policies in the early 1980’s.
A FEW ENCOURAGING WORDS
“Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourself were suffering.”
---- Hebrews 13:3
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
Each day, when we enjoy the happiness of life with hope for eternity and receive God’s abundant blessings, do we ask ourselves how we can enter into the heaven? Can the priest or the Levite passing by the “beaten to half dead” on the other side go to the heaven?
Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.”…”I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me” (Matthew 25: 40-43)
YOUR RESPONSE
---- Make Me a Blessing
q I am willing to go to China (or write to or make phone call) to bring the love of Christ to those persecuted brothers and sisters for His name, especially to those children.
q I will pray daily for the persecuted brothers and sisters and your ministry. Please send me a list of the persecuted so that I may pray for them by name.
q I am willing to use my gift from our God to participate in your ministry, or become a coworker (If so, please send us a detailed CV with a reference letter).
q Please put me on your mailing list to receive your publications of persecution.
q I pledge to support CIPRC’s ministry for the Cross with a monthly gift ____ one time gift ____ of $20 __$50 __ $100 __ Other ______. (Please issue the check to CIPRC. We will provide a tax-deductible receipt).
Name: ____________________________
Address: ___________________________
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Phone: ___________________Fax:____________________
E-mail: _____________________________
Although undertaking our ministry is not safe even in New York, God says “Do not fear”. Therefore, we open our home address, and phone numbering order to glorify our God’s will to be done on the earth as in the heaven. We pray more Christians can join us to fight this good fight for our Lord when the end of the time is not far away.
The Committee for Investigation on Persecution of Religion in China
146-01 Jasmine Ave
Flushing, NY 11355
Tel/fax: 718-358-5605
Tel (English): 646-361-5039
Email (Chinese): jiayuan@usa.com
Email (English): ciprc1@yahoo.com
Website: www.china21.org; www.china21.us